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The Session is one of the best sites for
quickly finding traditional Irish tunes in gif format or in abc format. Use the great
search engine to find your tune of choice or just peruse the extensive list of offerings.
Become a member (it's free) and reap the benefits of the tune exchange, tune updates and
other news. |
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Great
link to the Virtual
Tunebook offering music and sound bites of Galician, Breton
and Irish dance tunes. Also offers articles, reviews, and interviews
about and with instrument makers and Irish musicians. |
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Ceolas
houses the largest online collection of information about Celtic music,
and has links to hundreds of related sites. Especially good for links to
traditional tunes and various sites featuring
Celtic-style instruments. |
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Nigel Gatherer's Traditional Music is a treasure trove of traditional tunes from Scotland, Ireland and America. His list of tunes from Shetland
is an especially valuable contribution. Nigel, from Crieff, teaches Scottish traditional music and his transcriptions reflect his empathy particularly for beginners. He has transcribed scores of tunes in standard notation, whistle format and mandolin tablature. Plus, he adds midi files as a bonus. Also includes many links to other useful sites. |
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JC's ABC
Tune Finder is a straight forward, beautifully functional site for anyone looking for tunes
in ABC format, .gif, .pdf, .png, midi format or more. Simply type in the title of your tune, click
the FIND button, and then choose from a variety of file formats. |
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The ABC
Home Page site pretty much offers everything you need for learning the ABC musical
notation language and then compiling your own tune library in ABC format. Learn the history of
ABC notation and try out the tutorials. A great source for links to a variety of ABC compiler
shareware. |
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Eric Foxley's
Music Database is hosted via the University of Nottingham Computer Science
Department. The database includes hundreds of tunes in ASCII, .gif, .pdf and midi
formats. Try the index
for starters. You're in for a treat. |
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Celtic Music |
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Tradtunes
is a great site for downloading licensed tracks and albums of Celtic and American Roots music. It pretty
well covers most traditional instrumental genres from fiddles to bag pipes. It's also a nice source
for hard to find recordings in the Irish and Scottish languages. |
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A wonderful site for quickly finding traditional Celtic tunes in gif,
midi or pdf format. Hetzler's offers a great learning feature. Just
download the special midi plugin and you can change the speed
of any tune to help you learn it. |
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Irish
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Sessioneer
has a great archive of traditional tunes in .gif format for printing
or midi format for listening. Choose among many jigs, reels, hornpipes,
polkas and other dance tunes. Read the reviews of new CDs and new
instruments. Also offers advice to budding penny whistle players
and aspiring flute players. |
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Everyone
in InishMohr is a fan of Turlough
O'Carolan's music. Morbic.com is devoted to Irish music from the late 18th century,
especially the music of O'Carolan and the Irish Baroque era. Offers links to harp music and
dance tunes. |
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French Music
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The Molly Hares have
become a staple at Minnesota's Renaissance Festival. They describe their music as being "of a
Celtic base, blending music from all over the British Isles with substantial influences from Southern France". |
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White Thistle Kiltmakers offer much more than custom made kilts. Their offerings include a wonderful repository of midi files of hundreds of Highland Bagpipe tunes as well as other traditional tunes. Peruse the tune listings or, if you know the name, just look it up in the index of tunes. |
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Penny Whistle |
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Chiff & Fipple offers advice for novice
players, fingering charts and other guidelines. Read interviews with great
whistle players and makers. Tap into their chat room or link to other
whistle sites. Learn the difference between a recorder and whistle.
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Penny Whistle |
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What's the difference between
stepping on a trampoline and stepping on a penny whistle? Find out from the whistle
jokes! page. Offers reviews of whistles, sheet music and tunes plus
links to other whistle sites.
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Recorder |
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One of many fine recorder
sites. Recorder Home Page gives the latest news on recorder makers, tips on technique and
construction as well as research articles. Great links to recordings,
related recorder sites, the great recorder composers and their repertoire.
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A great
forum from the UK. The Bodojo is the first stop for every Bodhránai, makers of the
popular frame drum, and anyone simply interested in learning more
about the Bodhrán. Once and for all, learn the correct pronunciation
for "Bodhrán", learn it's illustrious history, and much, much more.
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Keep in step with the heartbeat
of Irish traditional music. Learn the answer to, what do you
call a groupie who hangs around annoying session musicians? on the bodhrán
jokes page. Check out the latest concert news and Bodhrán techniques via
the many links.
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About Celtic
Guitar gives insight into the origins of Celtic guitar playing. Great
links for O'Carolan
tunes and highland
bagpipe tunes arranged for guitar. Look for CD reviews, books
on Celtic guitar other guitar-related links.
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